Month: March 2012

Kitchen by Mike

Rosebery: A suburb one rarely goes to and my only reference of it is from an ad in my childhood of a sleepy sounding man in a giant mattress suit telling me of the amazing mattress prices at Mr Yawn’s Matress Factory, 443 Gardener’s Road, Rosebery. So when I heard […]

Logan Brown

Housed in a gorgeous heritage building (the former Bank of New Zealand) on the corner of the Boho-Chic side of town, Logan Brown in Wellington is impressive. when you walk in to the octagonal dining room, you cannot help but admire its beauty. And while we stood there in a state of […]

Indian Tuesday

After the success of Saturday night’s Indian, I wanted more… And having a gorgeous lot of lamb cutlets from the amazing Vic’s Meat (if you haven’t been, you simply must go to their Market Day on Saturdays between 8am and 12pm) I decided to attack the Punjabi Masala Chop recipe […]

Indian Saturday

I rarely eat Indian food. I like it, but somehow it just doesn’t make it into my regular rotation. I actually cannot remember the last time I ate Indian food, but having recently bought the book Gordon Ramsay’s Great Escape, which has 100 of his favourite Indian recipes, it was […]

Cranberry and Pistachio Shortbread

My lovely cousin over at Love Dove first gave me a bunch of these two Christmases ago, and they are perhaps the most delicious biscuit you will ever eat. Simple to make (as they do not require rolling out) why not make a batch and take them to a friend? […]

Red Knot

If you have a spare tenner, you cannot get a better return on your money than the return a bottle of Red Knot by Shingleback 2010 McLaren Vale Shiraz provides. Normally, I dry wretch and convulse when presented with bottles of wine under $20, let alone $10, but seriously you […]